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Mineral Awesome: Ode to the fountain of Zama Zama

Host
Gallery 1957
Location
Accra
Date
24.09.2024 – 15.10.2024
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Opening next Tuesday in Accra is Johannes Phokela’s solo exhibition ‘Mineral Awesome: Ode to the fountain of Zama Zama’. His canvases are drenched in the dark spoils and crimes of empire, war, pillage and dominion, exposing high-impact narratives with a thought-provoking finesse.

“The artist visually interrogates the impulse that precedes and exceeds the thrust of the spade or the drone of the drill. What does it look like – this primal, burning hunger for wealth that fuels the extractive drive? This obsessive mineral bedazzlement that feeds the endless, mounting dumps and slurries of toxic human history? These paintings invite the viewer to go there – to dwell in the basic, intrinsic human will to mine.”

- Extract from a critical text by Alexandra Dodd

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